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Where do you live? | BearOfNH: Nashua New Hampshire, USA. (To the West thereof). |
Where do you live? | techky: Lexington, Kentucky |
Where do you live? | UsNThem: Bangalore N Boston - |
Where do you live? | grosales: Manassas, Virginia USA. |
Where do you live? | Gilson_Silveira: Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. |
Where do you live? | wilane: Dakar, Sénégal (West Africa) |
Where do you live? | APLonDrugs: Was Chicago just moved to hide in the Appalachian mountains of Pennsylvania, two + hrs north of Philadelphia. |
Where do you live? | nazgulnarsil: San Francsico, CA |
Where do you live? | marcusbooster: Buffalo, New York |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | davidw: Sure:http://www.welton.it/freesoftware/And lots of little bits and pieces here and there. |
Where do you live? | ivanstojic: Zagreb, Croatia/Hrvatska |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | gdp: I did reasonably significant work on the ModelJUnit project for several months, but these days I'm back to concentrating on my own crazy schemes.http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~marku/mbt/modeljunit/ |
Where do you live? | rarrrrrr: Springfield, Missouri / Kansas City / Chicago |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | ErrantX: Define contribute? I tend to dabble in different things and contribute small patches for bug fixes, features etc. where I think it would be useful ;)My friends call it Ninja Hacking. |
Where do you live? | vinutheraj: Kharagpur, India ( currently studying here ) |
Many Ideas but No "Hacking" Skills | fname: Personally, I would hire a professional, not necessarily a contractor, that can get the work done in a reasonable amount of time. Do you have any friends that are programmers that can assist you? |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | cperciva: I'm the Security Officer for the FreeBSD operating system... does that count? :-)EDIT: I should add that this is one of the main reasons I got started in the field of online backups: There were lots of online backup solutions available, but I wasn't impressed with their security -- and due to being FreeBSD Se... |
Where do you live? | labria: Nahariyya, Israel. |
Many Ideas but No "Hacking" Skills | mixmax: I think learning how to program is the way forward for several reasons.- If nothing else you'll learn more about how it works, what can and can't be done, etc.- It'll make you a better manager- It shows that you have commitment.But basically it's simply about looking at one problem at a time, seeing how you mig... |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | Jem: I've released a series of PHP scripts for personal (young) webmasters under the GPL if that counts. |
Where do you live? | Flemlord: Denver, CO |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | mapleoin: I contribute to the Fedora Project's Infrastructure. Specifically the pkgdb: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdbI've also contributed extremely insignificant patches to django and turbogears.I'm not a startup hacker though... |
Where do you live? | dawie: Calgary, Canada |
Where do you live? | iterationx: Minneapolis, MN, USA |
Where do you live? | zwieback: Corvallis, Oregon |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | mrduncan: Yes, I actually just contributed my first patches for Rails this weekend (I think 3 or so got committed already) during the bugmash event. I definitely plan on making more contributions too. |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | socratees: I just submit bugs & crashes that happen on my Ubuntu system. Otherwise, I've been trying to contribute something to open source but in vain. |
Anyone moved outside of the US to bootstrap your business? | Diakronik: I can't say anything about leaving the continent, but I'll definitely back Montreal as a great place to go. I lived there for 12 years and am looking forward to returning (now in Ottawa for grad school).As was mentioned, the rents are reasonable (I've got a friend living in a 5 1/2---2 bed, living/dining/kit... |
Where do you live? | tlowrimore: Memphis, Tennessee |
Where do you live? | mcav: Des Moines, Iowa |
Where do you live? | tdedecko: Davis, California |
Where do you live? | dejb: Brisbane, Australia |
Where do you live? | tricky: St. Louis, MO. USA |
Where do you live? | gvwoods: Johnson City, TN |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | bjelkeman-again: Work daily on, but then that is my job. :)http://akvo.org/ |
Many Ideas but No "Hacking" Skills | blucz: There's plenty of room in a startup for the programmer + business guy to be different people...I think for a company to go far they almost have to be different people. While learning something about programming may be educational to you, I doubt you're going to become the kind of cream-of-the-crop programmer you... |
Where do you live? | rodrigo: Ciudad de México, México |
How would you manage an existing software team? | anamax: > There is an existing team working on these solutions, and they say they're about 50% ready to launch.> ... work with the developers to build a realistic set of phases and milestones in the project.Somewhere between these two statements there's a problem.What makes you think that they don't have a set of phase... |
Many Ideas but No "Hacking" Skills | charlesju: 1. You should pick up a MVC framework (Rails, is what I'd recommend). After learning something like that you can pump out your "ideas" fairly quickly as compared to simple PHP + MySQL. I'd say it's easier too, to learn from scratch, but maybe that's just me.2. Most hackers don't respect those founders that d... |
Where do you live? | basugasubaku: Frisco |
Where do you live? | dhyasama: Portland, Maine |
Many Ideas but No "Hacking" Skills | dcx: You should get together with this guy!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=752544 |
Where do you live? | odvious: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada |
Many Ideas but No "Hacking" Skills | macwarlock: Crawl, walk, run. Everything takes time. Bonus points for reaching out for help; it's an important step that a lot of people don't take advantage of.It's easy to see some of the cool apps and want to jump from Hello World to a production system, but programming, to me, has always been about incremental impr... |
Do we (HN members) need a HN social network? | pclark: isn't Hacker News a social network for us? |
Where do you live? | altxwally: Guadalajara, Mexico |
Where do you live? | ambulatorybird: Berkeley, CA |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | Mintz: I suppose somebody has to say it: No, I don't actively contribute to open source projects. No time, really. |
Many Ideas but No "Hacking" Skills | kallistec: I would recommend that you switch to ruby or python, then start going to the local users groups for whichever one you switched to. Stick around for the chatting/beers/etc. afterwards and network. Bring up your ideas with hackers that you hit it off with. If one of them bites, then by working together they'll... |
Where do you live? | pixcavator: Huntington, WV, USA |
Where do you live? | zppx: São Paulo, Brazil |
Where do you live? | dkersten: Dublin, Ireland. |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | there: yes, i'm an openbsd developer (though not contributing much these days).i've contributed patches to a number of other small projects that i don't keep track of. |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | jsonscripter: I work on GPLd code at work, but it is not distributed, so that doesn't really count. |
Where do you live? | saturdayplace: Salt Lake City, Utah |
Where do you live? | whoisterencelee: Macau, China |
Many Ideas but No "Hacking" Skills | dryicerx: Since you got the very basics down, stop just learning. Start building something Immediately. - Design the Outline of Application from user perspective
- Pseudo code
- Just Start Coding
- Learn as you are coding
Instead of just learning random things, it's a lot faster to be building something and lea... |
Many Ideas but No "Hacking" Skills | dirtyaura: Although I fully recommend learning a bit of programming, it sounds that it's not fastest way for you to build quality service.I think you have pretty good changes to find an okay programmer, ifa) you can bring more than just the idea to the table. There are tons of people with "ideas", but if you have somet... |
Where do you live? | ertug: Istanbul, Turkey |
Where do you live? | rickharrison: State College, PA |
Many Ideas but No "Hacking" Skills | nuweborder: 1. I too am not a programmer, but I believe that I have great creative ideas, and I do have an educational background and professional experience in business in marketing. I have a BBA in business mgmt, and MBA in marketing, and I work for myself as a social media marketer. I have been where you are, and... |
Why don't operating systems gzip their startup files? | profquail: How is "deflate + execution" going to be faster than "execution" when running the boot process?The reason that modern operating systems take a fairly long time to start up is due to things like enumerating hardware for PnP, getting a network address from DHCP, and starting whatever system services are necess... |
Where do you live? | krisneuharth: Irvine, CA. |
Why don't operating systems gzip their startup files? | gaius: vmlinuz? |
Where do you live? | ctice: Menlo Park, CA |
Where do you live? | jayjaypg22: Nantes, France |
Where do you live? | chipmunkninja: Really, I'm the only only representing from Beijing? |
Do we (HN members) need a HN social network? | seanlinmt: I think it might be a good idea to have a social network to bring hackers/entrepreneurs/geeks together and to find others who would want to work together on projects. |
Where do you live? | harry: Lawrence, KS, USA. |
Where do you live? | qhoxie: Portland, Oregon |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | shykes: We're the main contributors to http://dotcloud.orgOpen-source system automation for the cloud. |
Where do you live? | bbraasch: Oakland, California |
Why don't operating systems gzip their startup files? | donw: IIRC, initrd is also compressed. |
Getting started with Access Control (B2B web application) | ivanyv: That is an extremely broad question, and the answer depends on your application.I suggest you outline what type of application you're building and related requirements, and post that to http://stackoverflow.com |
Why don't operating systems gzip their startup files? | noss: The problem is probably to find out which files these are. Not that it is hard to measure, but afaik there are no tools in place to do it right now. |
Many Ideas but No "Hacking" Skills | mdasen: Here are my thoughts for what they're worth.If you hire contractors, it becomes really difficult. Do you know who to hire? You can't just say "I will pay X for you to make Y" and then assume you're good to go for several reasons. First, there are many flaky contractors out there. Since you don't know that m... |
Where do you live? | HeyLaughingBoy: Small horse farm in Minnesota, about 40 miles southwest of Minneapolis/St Paul. |
Getting started with Access Control (B2B web application) | jcapote: If you are familiar with rails (although it's worth learning if only for this), then look into http://wiki.github.com/stffn/declarative_authorizationI use it in 99% of all my projects to implement just that... |
Where do you live? | kungfooey: Nashville, TN |
Where do you live? | nico: Santiago, Chilehttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&... |
Unshortening links | dkersten: One of the guys I know wrote this service, which has a firefox extension and a JSON API for un-shortening URL's: http://www.longurlplease.com/ |
Where do you live? | asmosoinio: Turku, Finland |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | kingkilr: I've contributed a few patches to unladen-swallow, but most of my time is spent contributing to Django (I'm the multi-db guy :P) |
Why don't operating systems gzip their startup files? | dkersten: Linux DOES use compressed files - BUT: decompression takes time too, so I'm not sure exactly how valuable this is.
The real slowdown is waiting for hardware to intialise. The super fast linux booting that some people achieve is by clever elimination of services they don't need and by starting as many services... |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | intellectronica: Yes, I work full time on https://launchpad.net/ |
Where do you live? | hdx: San Francisco, CA |
Anyone moved outside of the US to bootstrap your business? | jasoncwarner: I currently live in PHX, AZ but will be moving to Auckland, NZ in the next year. Part of the reason is bootstrapping, but there are others as well: lifestyle, getting a better balance in life, living in a safer, nicer, cleaner part of the world that is very western and modern. Beaches ;) (there are quite ... |
Many Ideas but No "Hacking" Skills | HeyLaughingBoy: How did you manage to graduate with a BSEE without learning to program? Not flaming, I just don't get it. Even as an undergraduate EE, I was doing lots of programming projects.Anyway, you're an engineer; you can learn PHP. Trust me when I say that many people much, much dumber than you already have! |
Where do you live? | callmeed: Bend, Oregon |
Where do you live? | araneae: Ann Arbor, Michigan |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | callmeed: I open-sourced our help ticket system: http://github.com/bigfolio/big-help/tree/masterAnd I'm releasing an open-source image archiving app soon.I'll admit, I'd love to contribute to a larger open-source project but I feel intimidated at times. Sometimes I'm not sure I have anything to bring to the table for s... |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | maryrosecook: Um, I open source my own projects at github.com/maryrosecook Does that count? |
Where do you live? | drhodes: New Hampshire, US |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | woid: my one-man show: http://binaryage.com |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | wynand: I contributed a bit to Apertium (a machine translation system). |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | jseifer: I wouldn't say I actively contribute. However, I do contribute when I need something done. For example, I need Spree (open source Rails e-commerce) to handle s3 downloads so I created and open sourced the s3 download extension. I needed attachment_fu (Rails attachment plugin) to use the GD library, so I for... |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | haseman: I just started up the iPhone ARKit. An Apache licensed Augmented Reality toolkit for the iPhone |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | GeneralMaximus: I currently work on the Haiku project as a part of Haiku Code Drive. I wish to become a full time contributor once I'm done with the Code Drive.Also, I might start writing a FOSS app of my own in the future. It's just an itch I want to scratch.I can contribute to FOSS because I'm still in college. I gue... |
What websites do you frequent? | pclark: Hacker News, oddly enough. |
Augmented Reality: gimmick or next big thing? | pclark: the next big thing. like twitter and facebook. |
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